The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 83

For Wali Dâd was overwhelmed with grief and shame for himself, for his friend, and for the name and honour of the princess; and he wept and plucked at his beard, and groaned most piteously.

Who acts: Wali · What happens: overwhelm, weep, pluck, groan, honour · To what, where: Wali, beard, princess

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wali), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	SCONJ	_	5 overwhelmed	mark
2	Wali	Wali	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 overwhelmed	nsubj
3	Dâd	Dâd	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Wali	flat
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 overwhelmed	aux:pass
5	overwhelmed	overwhelm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 wept	parataxis
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 grief	case
7	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 overwhelmed	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shame	cc
9	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grief	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 himself	case
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 shame	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 friend	punct
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 friend	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 friend	nmod:poss
15	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 overwhelmed	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 name	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 name	cc
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 name	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 name	det
20	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 overwhelmed	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 honour	cc
22	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 name	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 princess	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 princess	det
25	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 honour	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 wept	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 wept	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 wept	nsubj
29	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 plucked	cc
31	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 wept	conj
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 beard	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 beard	nmod:poss
34	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 plucked	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 groaned	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 groaned	cc
37	groaned	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 wept	conj
38	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	39 piteously	advmod
39	piteously	piteously	ADV	_	37 groaned	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 wept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	overwhelm	past · passive		Wali		with grief and shame for Wali	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	weep	past	Wali				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pluck	past	Wali not said here		Wali's beard		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at beard=Source
4	groan	past	Wali not said here			piteously property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	honour			the princess			nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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